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Global action against the phantom known as "Globalization"

© GegenStandpunkt 2001 | 13.08.2001 12:51

A Critique of the "movement":

"Global action against the phantom known as "Globalization"

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yoga of the mind

13.08.2001 19:37

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as well as educating citizens in those locations. At such international meetings, there are also counter meetings, classes, workshops, lectures led by speakers from around the world. The point is not just to disrupt the IMF meeting, but to also put forth an alternative vision and educate people in it. Regular media ignores this, and so have you.

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There are various aboriginal peoples who would disagree with your assessment that it is truly one world. These peoples have their own cultures that are neither socialism nor capitalism. It is essentially the arrogance of the capitalist intellect that cannot see, recognize, or respect that there is more to the world than its own domineering world view.

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literally millions of poor people in the so called third world nations are engaged in protest in their respective countries. To claim that the movement is only those people from the industrialized nations who are protesting, is again a sign of the narrow minded arrogance which places the peoples of the rest of the world beneath its notice as it goes about playing its power games.


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that is completely false, without any basis.


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again, an absurd statement. . .the variety of opinions amongst its protagonists are such that no such statement could be applicable to everyone, even if it could be applied to a few.

I will not bother critiquing the rest of this long and scattered post. Just the first paragraph shows the character of the mind posting it. . .locked into its own intellectual world, divorced from the spirit of humanity and whole nature.







Deva


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13.08.2001 22:03

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